Lead Business Analyst in Leeds

We are looking for an experienced Lead Business Analyst to provide strategic analysis leadership across our delivery squads, shaping and enabling complex change initiatives. This role leads business analysis across the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring high-quality requirements, clear traceability, and strong alignment between business outcomes and technical solutions.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead business analysis activity across multiple initiatives within a Delivery Squad
• Own the end-to-end requirements lifecycle, from early scoping through to delivery and UAT
• Define, analyse and document functional and non-functional requirements
• Ensure full traceability from business outcomes through to design, testing and implementation
• Work closely with stakeholders, architects and engineering teams to translate business needs into effective solutions
• Lead and develop Business Analysts and Senior Business Analysts, driving high standards and performance
• Support demand shaping, business case development and prioritisation
• Drive high-quality process and impact analysis across business and technology change
• Ensure alignment to governance frameworks and consistent analysis standards

What you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience in business analysis within a regulated environment (e.g. Financial Services or similar)
• Proven track record leading analysis across complex or large-scale change initiatives or programmes
• Strong experience across the full requirements lifecycle, including traceability and UAT
• Experience managing or leading Business Analysts and developing capability within teams
• Deep understanding of process modelling, business architecture and systems analysis
• Ability to translate complex business needs into structured, actionable requirements
• Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience working across business and technology teams to deliver end-to-end change
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving capability
• Track record of delivering analysis that drives measurable business outcomes

Desirable:

• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks (e.g. Consumer Duty, Operational Resilience, SM&CR)
• Experience working in hybrid delivery environments (Agile and Waterfall)
• Professional Business Analysis certification (e.g. BCS, IIBA)

About our Benefits:

• Holiday: You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus: At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we’re all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension: We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare: Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits: When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.